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Why are you so worried about cryptocurrencies, and seemingly not worried about energy companies who actually are the ones who are creating the carbon emissions?

Using electricity and emitting CO2 are only loosely correlated, and in the case of cryptocurrencies are even less correlated because cryptocurrencies are dis-proportionally mined with energy from hydroelectric dams.

All of these articles about the ecological impact of cryptocurrencies only exist to divert public and regulatory attention away from the energy companies that are actually doing all the damage.

Oil companies did the same thing in the 70s when there was public outcry about plastic pollution, so they funded the "reduce reuse recycle" campaigns, and the crying Indian commercial etc, all to divert responsibility from the companies manufacturing the plastics to the consumers who use them.

There is a documentary called "The Story of Plastic" which covers this strategy, and how successful it has been for them in the past.